Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Rent Control Board oversees 14,000 area rental units. It's despised by people on both sides of the rent control issue. One woman, 78-year-old Helen Petrillo, has even maintained that her husband's experience with the board caused his fatal heart attack...
...that's the place where Lincoln was assassinated 129 years ago. As we all know, Booth pumped fatal lead into Honest Abe and then dived to the stage for a dramatic exit...
Many other signs pointed to murder. The gun that fired the fatal shots in Cheiry was gone. One of the victims had been given a powerful drug. Swiss police speculated that Jouret, Di Mambro or both oversaw the death ritual in Cheiry, drove to Salvan to direct the second stage and then fled. "If this is suicide," said Andre Thierrien, a fireman in Cheiry, "then someone must have given them a helping hand." In Salvan, fully packed bags were found in apartments that had been rented by victims, suggesting that some had expected to make conventional departures from town...
Ingratitude is fatal to a foreign policy of selflessness. And selfless intervention, unmoored from any conception of national interest, defines Clinton foreign policy. For George Bush, author of our first purely humanitarian intervention, Somalia was an afterthought. For Clinton it is the model. In Somalia he inflated the mission from feeding the starving to nation building, until driven out by public opinion. In Bosnia only last month, a U.N. bureaucrat was able to call in U.S. warplanes to strike at Serbs to avenge French peacekeepers wounded by Serb gunmen bent on fighting Muslims. What this has to do with...
...engineer of Warren Power, a company which runs the water supply into the city and surrounding areas from an outlying reservoir. A new city plan proposes the building of a dam to allow more irrigation and Mulwray opposes the plan on physical principles, a view which will soon prove fatal. The thematic importance of water escalates with the drought that the region currently suffers. Water is literally life and death in Los Angeles, and to a ruthless opportunist it is a potential source of profit as well...